Seagate GoFlex Satellite Mobile Wireless Storage Review

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My 500 GB Apple iPad 2!

Wouldn't it be great to watch any one of many HD videos you own while on that 1 1/2 hour subway ride?  Well now you can.  Seagate recently released the latest addition to their GoFlex line of external hard drives, the Seagate GoFlex Satellite mobile wireless storage system.  The key words here are "mobile" and "wireless". 

This 500GB external HDD is more than just a shell on a 2.5" hard drive supporting USB 3.0 connectivity and external power brick.  This drive has its own battery supply and integrated 802.11n wireless access point all in the same form factor as other external drives in the GoFlex line. 

Since companies like Apple release fixed configuration devices such as the iPad and iPhone Seagate saw a need for people with large libraries of multimedia beyond the maximum 64GB on the largest iPad.  Since all these modern devices support 802.11n, Seagate thought: wireless + hard drive + battery = success.

The only limit is you can only stream to 3 devices at a time and the Lithium Ion batteries provide a maximum of 5 hours of streaming.  Each of the three devices are able to watch the same or different content so it is like your own local cloud storage service.  To supplement this, Seagate provides a wall to USB power plug and 12 volt car plug to USB power so you can take the Goflex on longer trips.

To transfer files onto the GoFlex Satellite, Seagate provides a USB 3.0 connection that is ultra fast giving me over 170MB/s transfer rates.  My 650MB file took mere seconds to copy onto the Satellite.

Seagate has the GoFlex Satellite at an MSRP of $199.99 and due to this being a very new device that is the price we found it at the few retailers that currently carry the GoFlex Satellite mobile wireless device.   I am sure once inventories increase we will see it avaliable in more stores.

Current Seagate GoFlex Satellite pricing:  

The GoFlex Satellite comes with a 3 year warranty from Seagate.

In order to show you all the features, the interface, and set up we did this review as a HD video that you can watch below.

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Computex 2011: Antec Implements Seagate GoFlex Standard

At this year's CES Seagate announced its intentions to open the GoFlex connector standard, enabling devices and other drivemakers to build products around its GoFlex removable drive standard. We've seen limited public uptake thus far, but at Computex Antec announced its intentions to include a GoFlex drive bay in some of its future cases:

The bay can accept either GoFlex compatible drives or, with the swap of an insert, standard 2.5" SATA drives. With a standard 2.5" drive in place, the bay can also accept another 2.5" drive internally.

The GoFlex or standard SATA drive plug into a PCB backplane which connects to your SATA controller via a standard SATA cable. No word whether or not Antec's solution will support 6Gbps SATA at this point or how well tested it is with SSDs.

Antec expects GoFlex to debut in cases by the end of the year, perhaps on the new Solo II.

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Seagate GoFlex Slim 320GB portable hard disk launched

Seagate has attain something quite extraordinary with the readers Slim GoFlex.The Goflex Slim 2.5-inch exterior hard drive is a mere 9mm thick, manufactured to be as thin, light and moveable as capable of becoming to go together with your laptop or netbook.Depending to Seagate the portable hard drive is the width of a pencil, creating it 38 percent thin than the firm's current Goflex hard drive.

The Seagate GoFlex Slim uses USB 3.0 which can passing files 10x faster than in accordance with tradition USB 2.0. Don’t worry if your computer doesn’t support USB 3.0 since the GoFlex Slim is backward sutable with USB 2.0. You just don’t get the longed for speed of having a USB 3.0.

At only 0.354-inch thick and determining weight at only 160 grams, the GoFlex Slim is one of the meager and lightest transferable drives out there.its speed of 7200 RPM, has so far stated to be all time a happy to use. Testing USB 2.0 passing rate, we saw an have a median of 37.5MBps 27.6MBps and speed read and write correspondingly. As anticipated, the USB 3.0 speed were meaningfully to a greater degree 82.3MBps 102MBps read and write.

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